Would you like help paying for food you serve to kids in your care at home? Join the Child Care Food Program. Now you can get paid for the meals and snacks you serve every day to kids in your care. Relative or neighbor child care providers can join the food program...
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a well-documented success. This key federal nutrition program provides support for children in child care homes, Head Start, after-school programs, and child care centers. The program provides reimbursement for food...
Summer Meals
During the school year, suburban families can turn to school meals to help feed their school-age children. But for many children, summer vacation brings an end to the healthy school meals. Too often their families lack the resources to make up the deficit. USDA’s...
SNAP – the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is our nation’s #1 defense against hunger. SNAP is a powerful anti-hunger tool that helps put food on the tables of America’s most vulnerable citizens, and improves health outcomes for children. A major funding...
Economic and Food Security in the Suburbs – Hunger
PCCY found that nearly 30,000 more children in the Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties depend on SNAP (Food Stamps) than in 2008. Also, less than a third of eligible students participate in school breakfast programs. Click on the links below for a brief...
Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Fact Sheets
The EITC is the nation’s most effective program to lift working families out of poverty. It is designed to “make work pay” by supplementing the earnings of workers with low household incomes. The CTC helps families make ends meet by both rewarding work and recognizing...
Trainings
Children First offers free, comprehensive training sessions on children’s health insurance to groups all across southeastern Pennsylvania. The trainings typically last 90 minutes and cover two sessions: Session 1: An overview of children’s public health insurance...
Tracking Early Care and Education Fact Sheets- Chester County
Status of early care and education programs in Chester County as of January, 2009.
